Journal-box-securing mechanism.



P. J. HOWARD. JOURNAL BOX SECURING MECHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.30, 1913. 540

Patented Jan. 19, 1915.

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PLINY J. HOWARD, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL MALLEABLE CASTINGS COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, 01-110..

JonRNAL-Box-sEoUmNG MEcHApisM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 119, 1915.

Application filed September 30, 1913. Serial No. 792,665.

To all rokom it may concern Be it known that I, .PLINY J. HOWARD, a

citizen of the United States, residing at.

Cleveland, Cuyahogacounty, Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in J ournal-Box-Securing Mechanism, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows a side elevation partly-in section of a portion of a truck side frame embodying my invention and having a journal box of the M. C. B. type, secured therein; Fig. 2 is an end elevation thereof; Fig. 3 is an inverted section on lines IIIIII of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 shows a modified form of my invention.

My invention relates to the securing of journal boxes to truck side frames and consists'in providing journal box seats adapted for use With journal boxes such as those of the Master Car Builders type, which are designed to receive endwise and lateral thrust transmitted by the car axle to the box, and also serve to permit twisting of the box; it also consists in providing securin mechanism therefor. I

Referring to the drawings, the side frame 2 has the usual horizontal extensions 3 (only one of which is shown)-each of which is adapted to rest upon the upper surface'of a. journal box 4. Extending downwardly at right angles to the extension 3 are journal box receiving portions 5 and 6 spaced apart sufficiently to'accommodate between them the body of a journal box of the M. C. B. type. The portions 5 and 6 are U-shaped in horizontal cross section (as is shown in Fig. 3) and such portions are adapted to receive therein the top lugs 7- of the box 4 so that the ribs 8 and 9 of the portions 5 and 6 will bear at their. edges against the sides of the journal box, and on their inner faces against the top lugs 7. These journal box receiving portions are adapted to receive through the ribs 8 and 9 the thrust transmitted from the axle to the box, and to prevent skewing or twisting of the box relative to the'side frame.

When the journal box has been put in position" in the receiving 'space just described bolts 10 are inserted in apertures in the lugs 7 of the box and are passed upwardly through registering apertures in the extension 3 of the side frame 2. The extenslon 3 has cored out spaces 11, which permit the securingof the bolts 10 by nuts 12 or split keys 13 as is shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The squared heads ll of the bolts 10 are cut away on the side next the box to permit the ends of the bolts to enter the apertures in the lugs 7 and also to insure that the heads 14 will lie closelyagainst the sides of the box. It will be seen that the bottom lugs 15 of a box of the M. C. B.

type are not necessary for securing a journal box to a side frame of applicantsconstruction, and may when it is desired to save the construction and application of the im-' provemcnts which I have described and shown above.

What I claim is:

1. A side frame having a horizontallyextending journal box seat, journal box receiving portions extending downwardly from said seat and adapted to receive between them the top lugs of a journal box of the Master Car Builders type, said jour- .nal box receiving portions being adapted to take about the said top lugs and being open at the bottom to receive the said lugs when the journal box is inserted upwardly from below, apertures, in the top lugs and in. the side frame for reception of bolts, horizontal bearings on the side frame and On the underside of the top lugs, and bolts coiiperating with the said apertures and the said bearings, to secure the side frame and the top lugs together.

In journal box securing mechanism, a truck side frame having a journal box seat, ajournal box having lugs thereon adapted .to coiiperate with said seat, headed bolts for securing the lugs of the journal box to the side frame, the heads of said bolts be 'ing cut away adjacent to the box to permit said bolts to lie of the box.

3. In journal box securing mechanism a closely against the sides rising a journal box seat, a journal box the body of the bolt to lie closely against iiaving oppositely extending lugs, downsaid boX.

truckl-side frame having an extension comhaving a cut away head adapted to permit wardly extending projections on the said PLINY J. HOWARD. 5 extension taking about the lugs on the jour- Witnesses nal box, and bolts for securing the journal CHESTER K. BROOKS,

box to the side frame, each of said bolts HARRY E. ORR. 

